'Cuphead' May be the 'Best Thing' at E3 2015
One of the biggest conventions of the gaming industry has just concluded and it spawned a lot of brand new, spanking games for gaming fans to see and talk about. According to several reports, there is one particular game revealed during the E3 that stood out from the others. While most of the games utilized high-definition and sophisticated graphics, their gameplay was relatively the same for most, following specific game genres.
"Cuphead" however broke convention because of its retro animation and simple side-scrolling gameplay. The game is called a "run and gun Platform indie game" developed by two Canadians, brothers Chad and Jared Moldenhauer. The game's animation is said to be inspired by 1930s and 1940s cartoons such as those that came out of Fleischer Studio of Max Fleischer.
According to a report in Tech Times, the game's trailer reminded viewers so much of Disney's "Steamboat Willie" and the Fleischer Brothers "Color Classics," with its hand-drawn celluloid animation and its character designs. The report also said that the game's creators "went above just recreating character models from '40s cartoons."
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The new game is a side-scroller and there are two playable characters in the game – Cuphead and Mugman. Both characters lost a gamble with the Devil, and they have to do his bidding in order to repay their debt. In order to do this, Cuphead has to go through many boss battles, and based on the trailer, these can be battles against outrageous characters such as oversized vegetables, dragons, ghosts, pirates, sea creatures and more.
The Tech Times report continued by describing an actual hands-on experience of the game, which resulted in the players' repeated deaths. Because of its difficulty, the report called the game the "Dark Souls" of side-scrolling games.
Another report in CNET called the game "the best thing" at E3 2015. It said, "The reason Cuphead has registered with so many people is that it takes culturally familiar iconography, in this case animation art styles from more than 80 years ago, and recasts it in a new interactive context."
The indie game is coming to the Xbox One and the PC through Steam in 2016.
